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...half, thus reducing their effectiveness? Perhaps. But as Paul Bates, ad-industry analyst at London brokerage Charles Stanley, notes, all clever advertising, TV commercials included, runs the risk of being too entertaining and burying the sales pitch: "The most effective ads on TV are the ones that really annoy you because you tend to remember what they're about." Moreover, marketers can take some solace in a recent finding by London consultancy Essential Research. In a small study, it found that while all dvr users like to skip ads, they will stop and watch them if they are visually arresting...
...addition, travel on Western European trains is very reliable—ICE reports punctuality rates of 94 percent, just ahead of the pan-European Eurostar train’s 92 percent. European train operators have realized that few things annoy travelers more than transport delays. Amtrak has not. Its 77 percent on time rate puts it roughly on par with European and US flight punctuality. European trains also provide less quantitative benefits, including wireless internet, uninterrupted cell phone services, and something that planes will never have: Windows that open and fresh air. Unsurprisingly, while Amtrak stagnates in the U.S., more...
...thinking into a song a second ago. The lyrics seem much more real than ones describing this kind of experience should. Each track is uniquely Morrissey, using his charms to the fullest without coasting on his charisma. The biggest fault of these tracks is that the background has an annoying 80s-synthy sound. Although this would annoy me on most tracks, it is particularly frustrating in back of powerful, meaningful lyricism like “The Youngest Was the Most Loved,” a look at parents’ inability to hide their kids from the world?...
...Showtunes,” and released it as an album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004’s “i”) that alternately charm and annoy the critics. Still, this album has a lot to unpack. Director Chen Shi-Zheng, Merritt’s theatrical collaborator, builds his drama on age-old stories that, like a puzzle, simultaneously attract and deflect the audience. Unsurprisingly, the plays are all built on somewhat macabre premises...
...teacher Nina Garsoian used to tell me, “Ne drazni gusei! Don’t annoy the geese!” Larry didn’t get the message to stay away from the well-fed flock of lunatic leftist puritanical geese on the Faculty. Apparently he thought being the president of America’s oldest and most prominent university gave him the right to do something other than fundraising—even the right to exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo...